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February 01, 2005
Alexander Morozov back at it
Remember we talked about Alexander Morozov a long time ago? He was responsible for a lot of grief after targeting among others Movable Type blogs. He sent trackbacks full of bestiality and other porn links. When that got enough attention the trackbacks were deleted on site, he moved on to putting those links in Geocities pages instead, and trackbacked with those addresses.
Now he's back, trackbacking Typepad users. They've already been removed by Typepad, but I got a few samples from A Welsh View and had a look at the URL in them.
The URL in the trackbacks look to me to be a free site at a Polish portal. On that page, there are oodles of really bad links. The link that attracted my attention first was the fake blogspot link that Alexander has been associated with before. Check out Phil Ringnalda's post about that.
Off to find an abuse address for that portal.
I've seen a few innocent accesses from Alexander lately, so I was wondering if he was plotting something. I've been half expecting another trackback attack on MT.
BTW, Alexander is using compromised windows computers. Trojaned boxes. The other spammers I've come across so far have used open proxies. Servers.
UPDATE: I'm pleased to see that the spamvertized freebie site is down. I was one of the people who sent the portal an abuse message. I'm sure I wasn't the only one...
Posted by Ann at February 1, 2005 01:04 AM
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Thanks for the good work!
Posted by: orangeguru at February 1, 2005 02:20 AM